Specialist charities and organisations can give clients access to specialist help and support at a crucial time in their life. I sponsor or partner with a number of organisations, to help them in their work, securing justice and helping my clients to rebuild their lives following serious injury.
I am also a health and safety campaigner, and I campaign for change to improve conditions in the workplace to prevent accidents happening.
The Back up Trust
The Back Up Trust was set up in 1986, so that everyone affected by spinal cord injury could experience freedom and fun of life after spinal injury. They now offer wheelchair skills training, mentoring, support getting back to school and work and help for families - reaching more than 1,000 people every year. Helen Clifford Law has been a supporter of this remarkable charity and its work for many years and are proud members of the Back Up legal panel.
We have regularly sponsored Back Up’s James Beckwith Young Inspirational Person of the Year Award and are thrilled to be currently sponsoring tetraplegic Karter and Back Up employee, Chris Yeates, as he takes on the challenge of championship adapted karting.
Learn More: Back Up is for Everyone Affected by Spinal Cord Injury (backuptrust.org.uk)
Chris Yeates’ Adaptive Karting
Helen Clifford Law is delighted to be sponsoring tetraplegic Karter, Chris Yeates, in his challenge of adaptive karting. Chris is an employee of The Back Up Trust, a remarkable organisation helping individuals who have sustained life-changing spinal cord injuries. Following a road traffic accident in 2006, Chris wanted to get back into karting but did not think this would be possible with his level of injury. Chris competed in his first ever FFSA Handikart Championship race in Mirecourt, France in September 2025. In fact, he was the first ever UK entry. We are excited to be sharing Chris’s experience and to support him in his important mission to show others that there is life after injury.
FIA Disability & Accessibility Commission - Instagram
https://www.ffsakarting.org/en/event/2025-09-28-championnat-de-france-mirecourt-france/3
Austin Beighton – Mini Moto Racing
We are thrilled to also be supporting young racing talent, Austin Beighton - a rising star on the UK mini moto scene. At just 7 years old, Austin is already making his mark in the FAB Racing UK National Championships and the Stretton Summer and Winter Series. Austin started riding trials bikes at the age of two and a half during lockdown and completed his first competition at the age of four. A trip to the Isle of Man Manx GP in 2023 inspired Austin to try mini moto racing. Since then, he has raced against some of the best young riders in the UK, winning nineteen races in his rookie year. Austin is Moto Gusto Magazine’s youngest supported rider, a huge achievement highlighting his potential and passion for the sport. Helen Clifford Law are delighted to be part of Austin’s journey and look forward to supporting him as he continues to chase his racing dreams.
Find out more about Austin’s adventures:
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https://m.youtube.com/@debeighton
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572712454548
The London Hazards Centre
The London Hazards Centre was established in 1984 to help Londoners enforce their right to live and work in safe, healthy environments. It works with trade unions, tenants groups and community based campaigns. like the Construction Safety Campaign, the Battersea Crane Disaster Action Group, and through its asbestos support work. It is run by the members who elect the Directors and Trustees at the Annual General Meeting.
I was a director of the London Hazards Centre for 3 years, campaigning alongside it for safer working environments.
Learn More London Hazards Centre
FACK ( Families Against Corporate Killers)
Families against corporate killers - FACK - is a national network campaigning to stop workers and others being killed in preventable incidents and helps bereaved families to get legal help and emotional support.
The campaign is seeking urgent government action to halt the complacency about deaths at work and decent laws with will bring dangerously negligent bosses to justice. FACK wants a review of the way work-related deaths are investigated and the way families are treated. And it believes workers and safety reps must be given more rights to protect themselves against exposure to unacceptable risks to their lives and health.
I support the work of and act for FACK families.
Learn More FACK.ORG.UK
Claire Lomas MBE and Nichols Spinal Injury Foundation
Helen Clifford Law has also been a proud sponsor of Claire Lomas, a former event rider who became a paraplegic as a result of a riding accident in 2007. In 2012, Claire finished the London Marathon in 17 days in a robotic suit. Claire also gained her motorbike licence and when she decided to do laps at the British Super Bikes tracks, we stepped in to offer our support. Claire was a huge campaigner and fund raiser for spinal charities, particularly nsif, a charity committed to funding research and development into curing spinal cord injury. Her tragic death in August 2024 was a great loss for all who knew her.
Helen Clifford Law are delighted to have been sponsors for this worthwhile charity and would dearly love to see their fantastic work come to fruition.
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